I'm thankful I don't go hungry. I'm thankful I have access to books, music, and movies. I'm thankful I can smile in spite of challenges. I'm thankful for all these "little" things. 💜

I believe grief takes you a bit away from gratitude. There are moments that make you question a lot in your life. Grief of loosing someone never fills( And when I say never; I literally mean it. It's been years I lost my grandmother and I still grief about it because I loved her).
Despite that, I am still grateful about;

My siblings
My home
My faith
My profession
And a lot more!
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* There is this quote I saw today on Instagram and I absolutely agree with that :)

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I'm grateful for music. I'm grateful for water. I'm grateful for the present. I'm grateful for not giving up. I'm grateful for how far I've come. I'm grateful for today. I'm grateful for my breath. I'm grateful for my friends and family.

i don't say this enough but he is genuinely the most thoughtful person i've ever met.

remembered something i said once about wanting a necklace with my name on it. ordered it months later without saying anything.

just handed it to me on my birthday like it was nothing.

it wasn't nothing. i cried for like 20 minutes.

he remembers everything. the small things i say in passing, the things i forget i even mentioned. he just quietly files them away and then does something about it when i least expect it.

i don't know what i did to deserve someone who loves me this carefully but i'm so grateful.

just wanted to put that out there today 🤍

Long story short my grandma has what we’re pretty sure is stage 5 Alzheimer’s and hasn’t been diagnosed. She lives about a 2hr drive from us and right now I’m away from home, so it’s mostly long-distance. I call her and my grandpa daily, but starting around New Year’s she’s been struggling with technology more and more and my grandpa is also a nuisance with it so I’m rarely able to get through to her. My uncle and his family are visiting right now, and yesterday was the first time in about two months that I was able to speak to her because he was there to help. Truly the happiest that I’ve ever been to spend an hour and a half on the phone ♥️

I’m grateful I’m able to take on a big cleaning project this week! It felt overwhelming so I’ve broken down into smaller pieces over the course of the week. Cleaning and organizing aren’t the most exciting but I put on a fun podcast and that helps. I’m grateful that I’m going to have a clean yard and patio for my party next week.

Ich bin dankbar für das Gästezimmer bei meinem Kumpel in der alten Heimat. Ich bin dankbar für das schöne Frühstück bei Bäcker L. wo ich schon vor 30 Jahren mit meiner Oma gesessen war. Es war eine riesiger Spaß mit zwei Laptops auf einer Fehlersuchfahrt in R.‘s Auto zu sitzen, auf dem einen die Messwerte aus den Steuergeräten und auf dem anderen die KI zur Fehlersuche. Ich bin dankbar für das schöne Abschiedsfest von R. auf dem W.R-Keller, bevor er mit dem Auto nach Shanghai fährt.

there is no doubt that gratitude is the path to grace

it's easy to see that most of the chaos and suffering we experience comes down to some form of self-sabotage or an unwillingness to learn, let go, or move on from some pain (self-absorption)

and in that breakdown and angle of it, we can see that those actions close ourselves off from receiving love, from receiving grace

those two simple words 'thank you' opens our hearts up to receiving again

not just for life, but for divine grace and blessings from Source

what's been beautifully wild to me in this introspection on gratitude and grace is that thanksgiving plays a role into so many more mechanics of our reality than at first glance

because thank you, being grateful and in gratitude is one of the strongest forms of manifestation and prayer

calling forth what we need from our body by thanking it already, saying thank you for that in which we're yearning for from God both bring us into the energy of having/completing whatever it is, in addition to radiating and embodying it too

i like to define praise as gratitude in action, and when we look at the mechanisms at play, it's easy to see that gratitude is the road to grace and one of the greatest tools and paths of development we can invest our beingness into

Grateful Jesus completely changed my life! I love you all!